 | Education - 1877 - 972 pages
...uncharitable laws. The whole appeared to me as written with a good deal of decent plainness and manly freedom. My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1877 - 982 pages
...uncharitable laws. The whole appeared to me as written with a good deal of decent plainness and manly freedom. ot such as Europe breeds in her decay : Such, as she bred when fresh and young, grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to... | |
 | Henry B. Buckham - English language - 1881 - 270 pages
...astonishing tenacity. 18. He could offer no excuse for his conduct. 19. He was never timid for the right. 20. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age. 21. Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee at all his jokes. 22. Her mode of life she pleasantly... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1882 - 686 pages
...followed, with the single exception that the spelling is modernized.] i. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote...very early, as I do not remember when I could not readl, and the opinion of all his friends that I should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...offence your real friend, It is Peter Folger."f My elder brothers were all put apprentices to dif"erent trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age ; my father intending to devote me, is the tvthe of his sons, to the service of the church. • In the island of Nantucket. t The poem,... | |
 | United States - 1883 - 82 pages
...uncharitable laws. The whole appeared to me as written with a good deal of decent plainness and manly freedom. My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to... | |
 | New England - 1893 - 848 pages
...typical Boston boy. At eight years old, his father intending to devote him, according to his own account, as the tithe of his sons to the service of the church, he was put to the grammar school. He did not stay there long, for he did not accept his father's consecration... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...was impatient to have 1 resolved. Give a synonym. 2 clergyman. Franklin in his Autobiography says, " I was put to the grammar school at eight years of...tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church." 8 Plutarch : a Greek who flourished in the latter half of the first ccmtury, AD, renowned as the author... | |
 | Boston Latin School Association - 1885 - 118 pages
...typical Boston boy. At eight years old, his father intending to devote him, according to his own account, as the tithe of his sons to the service of the church, he was put to the grammar school. He did not stay there long, for he did not accept his father's consecration... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1886 - 256 pages
...town, where now I dwell My name I do put here ; Without offense your real friend, ItisPeterFolgier." My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to... | |
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My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. 
